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Search - Byron - Vol II

Byron Vol II
Author: Ethel Colburn Mayne

CONTENTS ....... CHAP. PACK I. ASTARTE I II. THE DEPARTURE . . . . . .33 III. THE OUTLAW 1816 . . . . -54 IV. VENICE 1816-1819 . . . . . .83 V. REALISATION OF EXILE 1817-1819 . . . .116 VI. TERESA GUICCIOLI 1819 . . . . .135 VII. RAVENNA 1820-1821 . . . . . .162 VIII. RAVENNA LITERARY WORK . . . . .179 IX. THE DEATHS OF ALLEGRA AND SHELLEY 1821-... more »1822 . 193 X. RESTLESSNESS ..... XI. GREECE THE END . .238 APPENDICES I. MRS. BEECHER STOWE . . . . . .267 . . 317 II. THE MEMOIRS . . . . .321 III. MEDORA LEIGH .... 327 INDEX . . . . . . -335 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LADY BYRON IN HER 20TH YEAR . , . . Frontispiece From the miniature by Sir GEORGE HAYTER, in the possession of MARY, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE FACING PAGE AUGUSTA LEIGH . . . . . . .24 SHELLEY......... From the sketch by Sir GEORGE HAYTER 68 From the painting by GEORGE CLINT, A.R.A., in the National Portrait ......... Gallery BYRON 98 From the painting by RUCKARD, in the possession of HORATIO F. BROWN, Esq. THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI . . . . .136 From the engraving by T. A. DEEN, after the painting by E. C. WOOD MARGARITA COGNI . . . . . . .182 From the engraving by E. SCRIVEN, after the painting by HARLOW TRELAWNY ........228 From the mezzotint by D. LUCAS THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON .....254 From the painting by Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A., in the Wallace Collection BYRON . . . . . . . . .266 After the sketch by COUNT DORSAY, 1823 vii BYRON CHAPTER I ASTARTE Mystery Astartt The Lushington document Augustas confessionA letter to Augusta Disagreement with Lady Byron Byrons Memoirs I speak not 1813-1814 Mrs. Beecher Stowe Lady Byron and Augusta Annabellas love for Byron Her martyrdom Augusta Leigh Last interview with Annabella Death of Augusta The end of conjecture The Magic Voice FOR long the Byron Separation remained a mystery. Rumour swelled and died and swelled again writers of every class exhausted themselves in conjecture, or maintained that they had access to irrefutable and decisive information. Serious books, frivolous books Mrs. Beecher Stowes revelations, followed by Quarterly and Edinburgh and Blackwood articles commentaries on the poems, loading every line with a narrow personal significance pamphlets virtuous and vicious little filthy contraband brochures that purported to be Letters from Lord to Lady Byron, and told of things unspeakable in villainous alexandrines . . . such a rank growth of printed matter crowded about a problem with which the public had all along been made too familiar, and in the end left that problem precisely where the Separation Proceedings had found it. VOL. II. I 2 BYRON And there, for that matter, we find it to-day. Conjecture, indeed, is at an end if we hear not Lord Lovelace and Astarte neither will we be persuaded though one rose from the dead but what Lord Lovelace proves in Astarte is precisely what rumour was mur- muring, in the town alive with rumour and with rancour, all through the spring and summer of 1816. Lord Lovelace, grandson of the poet, was the son of Ada Byron, who in 1835, aged twenty, married William, eighth Baron King created in 1838 Earl of Lovelace. Adas mother, dying in 1860, eight years after her daughters death, and nine after the death of Augusta Leigh, left a mass of manuscript referring to the separation. By a paper signed in February 1850, and confirmed in her will ten years later, she consigned to friends and trustees a box holding these MSS., and mentioned 1880 as the earliest possible date for a discretionary disclosure . But 1880 came and passed, and still her friends hesitated. There was great reluctance to corroborate the tale so wickedly sprung on the world by Mrs...

ISBN-13: 9781406779905
ISBN-10: 1406779903
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Duff Press
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